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...born Yaacov Gipstein in Rishon le Zion, when Israel was still Palestine. The son of a cabalistic rabbi, he never entered a school until the age of 13 and even now credits much of his thinking and visual vocabulary to cabalistic wisdom. Since Judaism forbids the creation of graven images, he searched for ways and means of producing a "living" art, one that while not depicting reality would yet approximate its changing character. After moving to Paris in 1951, he developed an interest in science and technology, which in turn led to his experiments with optical movement...
...history of the war is all too painfully graven in false optimism. Again and again, U.S. hopes have been raised by officials armed with gleaming statistics and pollyanna rhetoric. First the U.S. "turned the corner" in Viet Nam; then there was "light at the end of the tunnel," "the enemy was on the run," and the attrition rates, the kill ratios, and all the other jargon of victory rolled on and on. Since they have been proved wrong so often in the past, U.S. experts are careful not to parade their latest positive assessments; indeed...
...Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man; the storm-grey sea yields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high; earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven with shining furrows where his plows have gone . . ." (Antigone...
Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague. Last week, as Soviet tanks clanked into the capital, someone limned the graven letters in red chalk so that they stood out sharply on the grey granite. The words were spoken 550 years ago, at a time when the Bo hemians, who now are known as Czechs, were trying to win a measure of re ligious and national autonomy within the Holy Roman Empire. But they remain a poignant reminder of a de termined people's long search for freedom...
...With the graven mien of a frontier gambler who has peeked at his opponent's hole card, the Arkansas Democrat has stood pat against Lyndon Johnson - himself the master emeritus of Capitol Hill poker - matching imperturbably the President's wiles, threats and blandishments for 1 6 weary months...